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Originally posted by Adeptus
On the other hand, if you were to ask "Can conversations be released without consent", I'd have to say "yes", meaning that if you are not bothered by the fact the other person might not appreciate it, they will have no sustainable legal or moral objection against you.
The means of communication isn't what counts, the fact that you communicate something to a person in private (yes online messages ARE private) is what counts, hence you DO have a moral obligation to NOT make convos public.
In fact, there are even legal obligations here too, a conversation IS private and you could perfectly take this to court if someone takes a private message and puts it in public (precedents do exist).
The fact that some people are naief and trust personal information to strangers has got nothing todo with this. This is just the same in real life with the only difference that on the net, the line between knowing a person and being naief is much thinner. But again, that doesn't make any difference about the essence of the issue; which is taking something said in private to the public.
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